Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of Italy’s Andrea Pirani to their team. The multiple national Champion and European podium finisher will use the company’s tyres at open races world-wide while also helping with product development.
Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]
The Danish town of Tinglev near the German border played host to round 4 of the DRCMU series recently. In the Touring Modified class Xray’s Mike Gosvig made a clean sweep in the qualifiers and finals, winning all legs with a two to four second margin. Awesomatix driver Patrick Hornum would come in 2nd from Patrick Danielsen (Xray) 3rd.
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The second round of the Czech Open Electric On-road Series was held recently and in the Touring Modified class it was Matej Šulc (Xray) who took all qualifiers by over seven seconds from Petr Grof (Yokomo) 2nd and Michal Blahovský (Xray) 3rd. In finals Petr found some speed and got close to Matej but ultimately it was Matej with the win over Petr and Michal.
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Xray have announced the signing of European GT8 champion, Toni Santana to their factory team. Toni is also a multi-times Spanish GT8 champ and he will be using Xray’s GTX8 platform at national and international events such as the Euros and Worlds. Toni says:
I am following the work of Xray for a long time and I have been always amazed by the professionalism and dedicated approach for the continuous development of the cars. I am very happy to be part of this great family, to be able to participate on the further development of the GT platform and I am really happy to be part of the team. I hope to return that trust with work and results and I will work very hard to showcase next year at the European and World Championship.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
The opening round of the TIT Cup was held in Schöftland, Switzerland in Touring Pro Stock and Formula classes. In Pro Stock it was Roberto Alessandrelli with the TQ from Philipp Huber, who took two round TQs in the opening two qualifiers, and Maurice Lüscher in 3rd. In the finals Roberto was able to conserve his qualifying performance to take the win from Maurice in 2nd, while Philipp had to settle for 3rd despite two 2nd place finishes in the triple mains.
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Race 3 of the FSEARA On-road Series was hosted by Village Raceway in Royal Palm Beach, Florida over the weekend. The track was extremely high-speed, high traction, and slightly bumpy, which proved to be a tricky combination for most of the racers. Paul Wynn went on to TQ all three rounds of qualifying and lead wire to wire to take the win in the prestigious Pro Mod class. While privateer racer Troy Schafer TQ’d round one of qualifying in the Expert 17.5 Stock class. Troy had to settle for P3 on the grid after three rounds and in the A-main he had a small mistake on lap one that dropped him back to fourth, but he put his head down and quickly ran down the top three with the fastest laps of the race to go on to take the win.
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Round 1 of the Swiss Indoor Championship was held at the Fama model exhibition in Bulle in the French speaking part of Switzerland. The event draw a total of 80 drivers from Germany, France and Switzerland and in the Touring Modified class the qualifiers were an extremely close affair between Michele Manzo and Simon Kurzbuch. In the end it was Michele with the TQ from Fabian Widmer and Simon Kurzbuch. Michele then also made a clean sweep in the finals to take the overall win while behind him the race for the runner-up spot was on between Fabian and Simon. Ultimately it was Fabian who would prevail, taking the overall 2nd place on the podium.
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Round 2 of the British LMP National series took place at Birtley, just outside of Newcastle in the North East of England. Racing took place over two days, with Saturday seeing all drivers competing in the 13.5 fixed timings class. Sunday saw drivers split into 6.5, fixed timing, Modified and 13.5, fixed timing, Sports Modified. The Birtley team laid out a very challenging high-speed track, with a very narrow racing line and limited grip. Most drivers struggled to find a set-up that carried speed whilst also having the stability needed for the high speed direction changes.
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